PUBLICATIONS

González-Rubio, G.; Llombart, P.; Zhou, J.; Geiss, H.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Gai, H.; Ni, B.; Rosenberg, R.; Cölfen, H. Revisiting the Role of Seed Size for the Synthesis of Highly Uniform Sub-10 nm Length Gold Nanorods. Chemistry of Materials 2024, 36 (4), 1982–1997. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02866.

Manzaneda-González, V.; Jenkinson, K.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Borrell-Grueiro, O.; Triviño-Sánchez, S.; Bañares, L.; Junquera, E.; Espinosa, A.; González-Rubio, G.; Bals, S.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. From Multi- to Single-Hollow Trimetallic Nanocrystals by Ultrafast Heating. Chemistry of Materials 2023, 35 (22), 9603–9612. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01698.

Herrero-Ruiz, A.; Carolo, G.; González-Rubio, G.; Grzelczak, M.; Niehaus, J. S.; Weller, H.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Millifluidic Flow Reactor for Reproducible Seed-Mediated Nanoparticle Synthesis. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023, 127 (39), 19747–19758. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c03713.

Ni, B.; González-Rubio, G.; Cölfen, H. How a Facet of a Nanocrystal Is Formed: The Concept of the Symmetry Based Kinematic Theory. ChemPhysChem 2023, 24 (2). DOI:10.1002/cphc.202200480. 

Göppert, A.-K.; González-Rubio, G.; Schnitzlein, S.; Cölfen, H. A Nanoparticle-Based Model System for the Study of Heterogeneous Nucleation Phenomena. Langmuir 2023, 39 (10), 3580–3588. DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03034. 

Ni, B.; González-Rubio, G.; Kirner, F.; Zhang, S.; Cölfen, H. A Symmetry-Based Kinematic Theory for Nanocrystal Morphology Design. Angewandte Chemie – International Edition 2022, 61 (20), e202200753. DOI:10.1002/anie.202200753 

Pawlak, M.; Bagiński, M.; Llombart, P.; Beutel, D.; González-Rubio, G.; Górecka, E.; Rockstuhl, C.; Mieczkowski, J.; Pociecha, D.; Lewandowski, W. Tuneable Helices of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Liquid Crystal Templates: Molecular Dynamics Investigation of an Unusual Odd-Even Effect in Liquid Crystalline Dimers. Chemical Communications 2022, 58 (53), 7364–7367. DOI:10.1039/d2cc00560c.

Sobczak, K.; Turczyniak-Surdacka, S.; Lewandowski, W.; Baginski, M.; Tupikowska, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Wójcik, M.; Carlsson, A.; Donten, M. STEM Tomography of Au Helical Assemblies. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2022, 28 (3), 894–898. DOI:10.1017/S1431927621012009. 

Ni, B.; Gonzalez-Rubio, G.; Cölfen, H. Self-Assembly of Colloidal Nanocrystals into 3D Binary Mesocrystals. Accounts of Chemical Research 2022, 55 (12), 1599–1608. DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00074.

Heyvaert, W.; Pedrazo-Tardajos, A.; Kadu, A.; Claes, N.; González-Rubio, G.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Albrecht, W.; Bals, S. Quantification of the Helical Morphology of Chiral Gold Nanorods. ACS Materials Letters 2022, 4 (4), 642–649. DOI:10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00055. 

Göppert, A.-K.; González-Rubio, G.; Cölfen, H. Influence of Anisotropy on Heterogeneous Nucleation of Gold Nanorod Assemblies. Faraday Discussions 2022, 235, 132–147. DOI:10.1039/d1fd00087j.

González-Rubio, G.; Albrecht, W. Engineering of Plasmonic Gold Nanocrystals through Pulsed Laser Irradiation. Applied Physics Letters 2022, 121 (20). DOI:10.1063/5.0122888. 

Martínez-Negro, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Aicart, E.; Landfester, K.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Junquera, E. Insights into Colloidal Nanoparticle-Protein Corona Interactions for Nanomedicine Applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 2021, 289. DOI:10.1016/j.cis.2021.102366.

González‐rubio, G.; Hilbert, H.; Rosenberg, R.; Ni, B.; Fuhrer, L.; Cölfen, H. Simple Determination of Gold Nanocrystal Dimensions by Analytical Ultracentrifugation via Surface Ligand‐solvent Density Matching. Nanomaterials 2021, 11 (6). DOI:10.3390/nano11061427.

González-Rubio, G.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Albrecht, W.; Manzaneda-González, V.; Bañares, L.; Rivera, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Bals, S.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Controlled Alloying of Au@Ag Core–Shell Nanorods Induced by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation. Advanced Optical Materials 2021, 9 (10), 2002134. DOI:10.1002/adom.202002134. 

Díaz-Núñez, P.; Thomä, S. L. J.; González-Rubio, G.; Borrell-Grueiro, O.; Höller, R. P. M.; Chanana, M.; Garoz, D.; Bañares, L.; Junquera, E.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Rivera, A.; Peña-Rodríguez, O. Rod-Sphere Cluster Irradiation with Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Cut and Paste at the Nanoscale. Nanophotonics 2021, 10 (12), 3153–3159. DOI:10.1515/nanoph-2021-0240. 

Van Rie, J.; González-Rubio, G.; Kumar, S.; Schütz, C.; Kohlbrecher, J.; Vanroelen, M.; Van Gerven, T.; Deschaume, O.; Bartic, C.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Salazar-Alvarez, G.; Thielemans, W. SANS Study of Mixed Cholesteric Cellulose Nanocrystal-Gold Nanorod Suspensions. Chemical Communications 2020, 56 (85), 13001–13004. DOI:10.1039/d0cc04845c.

Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; González-Rubio, G.; Manzaneda-González, V.; Rivera, A.; Perlado, J. M.; Junquera, E.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Au@Ag Core–Shell Nanorods Support Plasmonic Fano Resonances. Scientific Reports 2020, 10 (1). DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-62852-9. 

Kirner, F.; Potapov, P.; Schultz, J.; Geppert, J.; Müller, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Sturm, S.; Lubk, A.; Sturm, E. Additive-Controlled Synthesis of Monodisperse Single Crystalline Gold Nanoparticles: Interplay of Shape and Surface Plasmon Resonance. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2020, 8 (31), 10844–10851. DOI:10.1039/d0tc01748e. 

Keßler, S.; González-Rubio, G.; Reinalter, E. R.; Kovermann, M.; Cölfen, H. Synthesis of Nickel Hexacyanoferrate Nanocubes with Tuneable Dimensions: Via Temperature-Controlled Ni2+-Citrate Complexation. Chemical Communications 2020, 56 (92), 14439–14442. DOI:10.1039/d0cc04628k.

Göppert, A.-K.; González-Rubio, G.; Cölfen, H. Microscopic Analysis of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Nanoparticle Superstructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2020, 124 (27), 5657–5663. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01844.

González-Rubio, G.; Scarabelli, L.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Surfactant-Assisted Symmetry Breaking in Colloidal Gold Nanocrystal Growth. ChemNanoMat 2020, 6 (5), 698–707. DOI:10.1002/cnma.201900754. 

González-Rubio, G.; Mosquera, J.; Kumar, V.; Pedrazo-Tardajos, A.; Llombart, P.; Solís, D. M.; Lobato, I.; Noya, E. G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Taboada, J. M.; Obelleiro, F.; MacDowell, L. G.; Bals, S.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Micelle-Directed Chiral Seeded Growth on Anisotropic Gold Nanocrystals. Science 2020, 368 (6498), 1472–1477. DOI:10.1126/science.aba0980.

González-Rubio, G.; Milagres De Oliveira, T.; Albrecht, W.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Castro-Palacio, J. C.; Prada, A.; González, R. I.; Scarabelli, L.; Bañares, L.; Rivera, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Bals, S.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Formation of Hollow Gold Nanocrystals by Nanosecond Laser Irradiation. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11 (3), 670–677. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03574. 

Castro-Palacio, J. C.; Ladutenko, K.; Prada, A.; González-Rubio, G.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Fernández De Córdoba, P.; Kohanoff, J.; Perlado, J. M.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Rivera, A. Hollow Gold Nanoparticles Produced by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11 (13), 5108–5114. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01233.

Bagiński, M.; Tupikowska, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Wójcik, M.; Lewandowski, W. Shaping Liquid Crystals with Gold Nanoparticles: Helical Assemblies with Tunable and Hierarchical Structures Via Thin-Film Cooperative Interactions. Advanced Materials 2020, 32 (1). DOI:10.1002/adma.201904581.

Albrecht, W.; Bals, S.; de Oliveira, T. M.; Gonzalez-Rubio, G.; Altantzis, T.; Hoyos, I. P. L.; Bećhe, A.; van Aert, S.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. 3D Characterization and Plasmon Mapping of Gold Nanorods Welded by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation. ACS Nano 2020, 14 (10), 12558–12570. DOI:10.1021/acsnano.0c02610.

Ahijado-Guzmán, R.; Sánchez-Arribas, N.; Martínez-Negro, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Santiago-Varela, M.; Pardo, M.; Piñeiro, A.; López-Montero, I.; Junquera, E.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Intercellular Trafficking of Gold Nanostars in Uveal Melanoma Cells for Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy. Nanomaterials 2020, 10 (3). DOI:10.3390/nano10030590. 

Szustakiewicz, P.; González-Rubio, G.; Scarabelli, L.; Lewandowski, W. Robust Synthesis of Gold Nanotriangles and Their Self-Assembly into Vertical Arrays. ChemistryOpen 2019, 8 (6), 705–711. DOI:10.1002/open.201900082.

Mosquera, J.; García, I.; Henriksen-Lacey, M.; González-Rubio, G.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Reducing Protein Corona Formation and Enhancing Colloidal Stability of Gold Nanoparticles by Capping with Silica Monolayers. Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31 (1), 57–61. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04647. 

Martín-Sánchez, C.; González-Rubio, G.; Mulvaney, P.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Rodríguez, F. Monodisperse Gold Nanorods for High-Pressure Refractive Index Sensing. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019, 10 (7), 1587–1593. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00636. 

Hanske, C.; Hill, E. H.; Vila-Liarte, D.; González-Rubio, G.; Matricardi, C.; Mihi, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Solvent-Assisted Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods into Hierarchically Organized Plasmonic Mesostructures. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2019, 11 (12), 11763–11771. DOI:10.1021/acsami.9b00334.

González-Rubio, G.; Kumar, V.; Llombart, P.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Bladt, E.; Altantzis, T.; Bals, S.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Noya, E. G.; Macdowell, L. G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Disconnecting Symmetry Breaking from Seeded Growth for the Reproducible Synthesis of High Quality Gold Nanorods. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (4), 4424–4435. DOI:10.1021/acsnano.8b09658.

Díaz-Núñez, P.; García-Martín, J. M.; González, M. U.; González-Arrabal, R.; Rivera, A.; Alonso-González, P.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; González-Rubio, G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Bañares, L.; Peña-Rodríguez, O. On the Large Near-Field Enhancement on Nanocolumnar Gold Substrates. Scientific Reports 2019, 9 (1). DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-50392-w.

González-Rubio, G.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. A Peptide-Guided Twist of Light. Nature 2018, 556 (7701), 313–314. DOI:10.1038/d41586-018-04205-1

Díaz-Núñez, P.; González-Rubio, G.; Prada, A.; González Izquierdo, J.; Rivera, A.; Bañares, L.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Peña-Rodríguez, O. Using Femtosecond Laser Irradiation to Grow the Belly of Gold Nanorods. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (34), 19816–19822. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06375.

Hanske, C.; González-Rubio, G.; Hamon, C.; Formentín, P.; Modin, E.; Chuvilin, A.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Marsal, L. F.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Large-Scale Plasmonic Pyramidal Supercrystals via Templated Self-Assembly of Monodisperse Gold Nanospheres. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121 (20), 10899–10906. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b12161.

González-Rubio, G.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Rivera, A.; Prada, A.; Tardajos, G.; González-Izquierdo, J.; Bañares, L.; Llombart, P.; Macdowell, L. G.; Palafox, M. A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Femtosecond Laser Reshaping Yields Gold Nanorods with Ultranarrow Surface Plasmon Resonances. Science 2017, 358 (6363), 640–644. DOI:10.1126/science.aan8478. 

González-Rubio, G.; De Oliveira, T. M.; Altantzis, T.; La Porta, A.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Bals, S.; Scarabelli, L.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Disentangling the Effect of Seed Size and Crystal Habit on Gold Nanoparticle Seeded Growth. Chemical Communications 2017, 53 (82), 11360–11363. DOI:10.1039/c7cc06854a.

Díaz-Núñez, P.; González-Izquierdo, J.; González-Rubio, G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Rivera, A.; Perlado, J. M.; Bañares, L.; Peña-Rodríguez, O. Effect of Organic Stabilizers on Silver Nanoparticles Fabricated by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation. Applied Sciences 2017, 7 (8). DOI:10.3390/app7080793. 

Hamon, C.; Henriksen-Lacey, M.; La Porta, A.; Rosique, M.; Langer, J.; Scarabelli, L.; Montes, A. B. S.; González-Rubio, G.; de Pancorbo, M. M.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Basabe-Desmonts, L. Tunable Nanoparticle and Cell Assembly Using Combined Self-Powered Microfluidics and Microcontact Printing. Advanced Functional Materials 2016, 26 (44), 8053–8061. DOI:10.1002/adfm.201602225.

Hamon, C.; Henriksen-Lacey, M.; La Porta, A.; Rosique, M.; Langer, J.; Scarabelli, L.; Montes, A. B. S.; González-Rubio, G.; de Pancorbo, M. M.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Basabe-Desmonts, L. Tunable Nanoparticle and Cell Assembly Using Combined Self-Powered Microfluidics and Microcontact Printing. Advanced Functional Materials 2016, 26 (44), 8053–8061. DOI:10.1002/adfm.201602225.

González-Rubio, G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Reshaping, Fragmentation, and Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Assisted by Pulse Lasers. Accounts of Chemical Research 2016, 49 (4), 678–686. DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00041.

Gavilán-Rubio, H.; Coelho, J. P.; González-Rubio, G.; Tardajos, G.; Barcina, J. O.; Salgado, C.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Thiol-Functionalized IGEPAL® Surfactants as Novel Fluorescent Ligands for the Silica Coating of Gold Nanoparticles. Israel Journal of Chemistry 2016, 56 (4), 249–256. DOI:10.1002/ijch.201500045.

Fernández, C.; González-Rubio, G.; Langer, J.; Tardajos, G.; Liz-Marzán, L. M.; Giraldo, R.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Nucleation of Amyloid Oligomers by RepA-WH1-Prionoid-Functionalized Gold Nanorods. Angewandte Chemie – International Edition 2016, 55 (37), 11237–11241. DOI:10.1002/anie.201604970.

Ahijado-Guzmán, R.; González-Rubio, G.; Izquierdo, J. G.; Bañares, L.; López-Montero, I.; Calzado-Martín, A.; Calleja, M.; Tardajos, G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Intracellular pH-Induced Tip-to-Tip Assembly of Gold Nanorods for Enhanced Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy. ACS Omega 2016, 1 (3), 388–395. DOI:10.1021/acsomega.6b00184.

2012-2015

González-Rubio, G.; González-Izquierdo, J.; Bañares, L.; Tardajos, G.; Rivera, A.; Altantzis, T.; Bals, S.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Liz-Marzán, L. M. Femtosecond Laser-Controlled Tip-to-Tip Assembly and Welding of Gold Nanorods. Nano Letters 2015, 15 (12), 8282–8288. DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03844.

Coelho, J. P.; González-Rubio, G.; Delices, A.; Barcina, J. O.; Salgado, C.; Ávila, D.; Peña-Rodríguez, O.; Tardajos, G.; Guerrero-Martínez, A. Polyrotaxane-Mediated Self-Assembly of Gold Nanospheres into Fully Reversible Supercrystals. Angewandte Chemie – International Edition 2014, 53 (47), 12751–12755. DOI:10.1002/anie.201406323.

Ávila-Brande, D.; González-Rubio, G.; Perezzan, R.; Urones-Garrote, E.; Otero-Díaz, L. C. Electron Microscopy Characterization of Nanometric ZrO2 and Er2O2S Synthetized from Organometallic Precursors. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012, 18 (S2), 1866–1867. DOI:10.1017/S143192761201118X.